In a move that will sure enough please parents and grandparent around the world , Apple has finally announced group FaceTime functionality for iOS . In iOS 12 , you ’ll finally be able-bodied to FaceTime with up to 31 of your close friends .

The major appealingness of grouping FaceTime for me come with its simplified integrating with iMessage . There are a few group confabulation on my phone that are forever updated / combat-ready among crime syndicate and friend , and being able-bodied to speedily turn one of them in a FaceTime session seems like it ’ll be extremely commodious . For special occasions ( like my yearly phantasy football game draft copy ) , rather than trying to wrangle everyone into a G - Hangout or Google Hang or whatever they ’re called now , this seems like a much more simplified solution .

Apple will also permit you put Animoji and other weird photo filters over your grimace when you ’re FaceTiming with lots of people , and that does n’t really matter so much unless you ’re really tired of and want to be on camera or something .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

Group FaceTime is the case of thing that wo n’t seem useful until the pick to start one pops up on your phone and you recall , “ hey , I really would wish to do that right now , thanks Apple . ” I wo n’t be FaceTiming my family five times daily , but it ’s a decent ease to know that the pick is there when the chance arises .

Now all that ’s leave to do is wait for your mom and dada to put you in a group FaceTime with them and your Uncle Bill while they ’re tailgate at the Mets plot . Whether you break up up , however , is another interrogative entirely .

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William Duplessie

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